Open AccessProfile: Tim de Zeeuw
Author(s) -
Tim de Zeeuw
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48310.x
Subject(s) - geology
Tim de Zeeuw, Scientific Director of the Leiden Observatory and Director of NOVA since its foundation, becomes Director of the European Southern Observatory in September. Here he talks about chance, competition and collaboration – and how a theorist came to oversee one of the world's great observatories.